Quotes About Acceptance

El único modo de liberarnos del miedo y ser realmente felices consiste en reconocerlo y ver profundamente en su fuente. Dejemos de querer escapar del miedo, permitamos que aflore en nuestra conciencia y mirémoslo directa y fijamente a los ojos.

Some people think that to end suffering, you have to stop everything — body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness — but that is not correct

The first part of looking at our fear is just inviting it into our awareness without judgment.

Knowing how to suffer well is essential to realizing true happiness.

When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy.

We agreed that the true enemy of man is not man. Our enemy is not outside of us. Our true enemy is the anger, hatred, and discrimination that is found in the hearts and minds of man.

El dolor es inevitable. Está en todas partes. Además del sufrimiento individual y el sufrimiento colectivo como seres humanos, también existe el sufrimiento desencadenado por la naturaleza. Los desastres naturales y no naturales ocurren a diario por todos los rincones del planeta: tsunamis, incendios forestales, hambrunas, guerras.

I am here, available to life. And life is available to me.

All the elements for your happiness are already here. There's no need to run, strive, search or struggle. Just be.

But the path back home is not long. Home is inside us. Going home requires only sitting down and being with yourself, accepting the situation as it is. Yes, it might be a mess in there, but we accept it because we know we have left home for a long time. So now we're home. With our in-breath and our out-breath, our mindful breathing, we begin to tidy up our homes.

We can put an end to our suffering just by realizing that our suffering is not worth suffering for! How

We do not expect a person always to be a flower, we have to understand his or her gardens as well.

Of course, you have the right to suffer, but as a practitioner, you do not have the right not to practice. We all need to be understood and loved, but the practice is not merely to expect understanding and love. It is to practice understanding and love. Please don't complain when no one seems to love or understand you. Make the effort to understand and love them better.

Without suffering, you cannot get the peace and joy you deserve.

Ser capaz de detenerte y advertir el momento presente forma parte de la definición de felicidad. No es posible ser feliz en el futuro. No es una cuestión de creer en ello, sino de experimentarlo.

So to love someone, you have to understand the real needs of that person, and not impose on her what you think is needed for her to be happy. Understanding is the foundation of love.

The idea that doing dishes is unpleasant can occur to us only when we are not doing them. Once we're standing in front of the sink with our sleeves rolled up and our hands in warm water, it's really not bad at all.

I was feeling really, really good about myself and then I was papped and this picture went online and I remember seeing a comment saying she needs to lose weight' and I was like are you joking?'

Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

I have lived almost seven decades. So I've had my hair journey where I wasn't comfortable with my hair.

My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in a white community living in Long Island, N.Y., where no one had a clue what to do with it.

I'm a role player, a journeyman. I know who I am.

We all have different journeys and we all have different experiences.